XL. CAPRIFOLIA'‘CEZ : LEYCESTE'RIM. 543 
ments densely bearded inside. Style and stamens a little exserted. (Don’s 
Mill.) A dense shrub, bearing a close resemblance to S. racemésus._ Bri- 
tish North America, in the woody country between lat. 54° and 64°. Height 
4%. to 6 ft. Introduced ?. Flowers pinkish ; July to September. Fruit 
white ; October, and remaining on during the winter. 
Distinguished from S. racemdsus by the larger, less glaucous, more rigid, and 
denser foliage, and by the flowers being arranged in dense drooping spikes, 
longer than in S. racemdsus, and by the prominent style and stamens. 
Genus VI. 
LEYCESTE‘RIA Wall. Tae Leycesteria. Lin. Syst. Pentandria 
Monogynia. 
Identification. Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., 2. p. 181.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 338.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 45]. 
Derivation. Named by Dr. Wallich after his friend William Leycester, formerly chief judge of the 
principal native court under the Bengal Presidency ; “* who during a long series of years, and in 
various parts of Hindoostan, has pursued every branch of horticulture with a munificence, zeal, 
and success, which abundantly entitle him to that distinction.” 
Gen. Char. Calyx with an ovate tube, and an unequal, 5-parted, per- 
manent limb. Segments unequal, small, linear, glandularly ciliated. Co- 
rolla funnel-shaped ; having the 
tube gibbous above the base, 
and the limb campanulate, and 
divided into 5 ovate nearly equal 
lobes. Stamens 5. Stigma capi- “ 
tate. Berry roundish, 5-celled. 
(Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, opposite, exsti- 
pulate, sub-evergreen ; ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminated, petiolate, 
smooth, entire, membranous, 
glaucous, with an obtuse sub- 
cordate base. Petioles pilose. 
Flowers white, with a tinge of 
purple; disposed in whorls, 
forming short leafy drooping 
racemes, which terminate the 
branches and branchlets. Brac- 
teas large, foliaceous, purplish, 
pubescent and ciliated, lanceo- 
late, acuminated; generally 6 
under each whorl of flowers. 
Berries deep purple, approach- 
ing to black, as large as a com- 
mon-sized gooseberry. Shrub 
large, rambling, with elongated 
fistular branches, which rise 
from scaly buds. Native of 
Nepal. 
This genus appears to be inter- 
mediate between Caprifoliaceze 
and Rubiacee ; but from the last 
it is distinguished by the want of 
stipules. 1014. Leycestaria formisa. 
